Miguel Martínez Youngs is nearly 30. Normally, at this stage of life, he and his friends would be talking about buying houses, he told the Senate Committee on Housing and Municipal Governance. But instead, he said, their conversations tend to center around questions like, "Has your rent gone up? How much?"...
Housing advocates, community leaders, and state legislators, including Rhode Island Speaker of the House Joseph Shekarchi, gathered in the State House library on Thursday to call for increased investments that will support building, preserving, and removing barriers to accessing safe, healthy and affordable homes for Rhode Islanders. The event was organized by Homes RI, “a cross-sector coalition of
Backers of one new General Assembly proposal to ease Rhode Island's housing crunch say it would not count McMansions as affordable housing, as critics fear. The legislation, which passed the House on Thursday evening, counts some mobile homes toward each community's 10% affordable-housing quota...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island leaders are hailing the newly announced “Superman” building deal as a win for affordable housing, with one in five of the project’s planned apartments restricted by income. But whether those units are truly “affordable” could be in the eye of the beholder...
Advocates asked the state to invest $500m in ARPA funds, including $350m just for the development of new and preservation of existing homes. Instead, only $90m has been dedicated to development so far. Read PDF version here.
PROVIDENCE, RI – According to a survey of Rhode Island non-profit housing developers, over 1,900 affordable homes could be developed within the next three years in 18 communities if the necessary resources are allocated. The Housing Network of Rhode Island (HNRI) recently surveyed its 17 member organizations to forecast their affordable home development plans through
Katie West, Housing Opportunities Manager, Receives Senator Jack Reed Advocacy Award at the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Annual Breakfast The Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless hosted its Annual Awards Breakfast Monday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Three hundred people attended, including Attorney General Peter Neronha, Mayor of Warwick Joseph Solomon,
In yet another indication that where one lives has a profound influence on individual and collective health, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the state’s largest insurer, is awarding a total of $200,000 to five housing-related organizations.
The Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable homes campaign is pleased to announce a new state partner, The Housing Network of Rhode Island (HNRI), has joined the campaign. HNRI was recently selected through the campaign’s “Endorsement Application,” which enables state-level organizations pursuing multi-sector efforts focused on housing policy to earn a formal endorsement from the national campaign.
Rhode Island’s top lawmakers are vowing to address the ever-increasing cost of housing in the state during the current legislative session, but they haven’t quite fleshed out a plan for how to pay for it.